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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02
April |. ISS.

April l, 1871.
To the Editor of the PALATKA NEWS:
In your report of the proceedings of
the Republican convention, held in the
Opera House one week ago last Thurs
day, l notice that j. f. Manucy was APP
pointed teller and that he, with the
other two tellers, received and counted
the ballots. 1t will he remembered that
Mr.. Manucy's vote was challenged in the
Citizens meeting last Thursday night,
and that he claimed that he did no rOting
in the Republican convention. This sub
terfuge enabled him to- cast ballot in
the Citizens meeting, which according
to the rules governing that convention
he had no right to do. Mr.. p. j. Manu-
cy's vote was also challenged and the
two deposited their ballots under protest
and were required to endorse their names
across the back of the ballots. Another
party in the Citizens convention, well
known to me, was seen to pass the bal
loting place in the hall twice and would
have cast the third vote but was not per-
mitted.
1t appears that in spite of the care
taken to ensure fair and honorable deal
ing in this meeting, the convention was
well stocked with those who ''partici-
pated in" the Republican convention and
was practically run in that interest. The
votes cast in that meeting by the parties
mentioned We're probably for Mr.. Loeb,
and of course lost to Hawkins.
Our colored brethren are reasonably
chagrined Mt the result, and now set at
naught the pledges of white support
given them-believing us to have broken
our faith with them and only trying to
use them for the present need. to cast
them off when the sun shall rise
April 9Th.
In the name of honor and fair play,
and if not for that, for the sake of con-
sistency, | shall scratch the name of NJ
Loeb for Alderman and substitute that
of j. A. Hawkins. Now what do these
Citizens conventions amount to? A Re
publican is a citizen, so is a Democrat,
and likewise Prohibitionist and local
optioner. Do oil and water mix: You
may as soon expect them to, as a har-
monious fusion of all the elements.
In the future, if not now, wish to be
no part of a citizens convention. Let
us have straight ticket, Democratic.
Republican, Prohibition, or what you
| please, SO We are something-give us a
| square issue and no more of the raTie-
| gated order.
IL we have not good timber in the old
| reliable, Democratic party. and l believe
we have some of the best of both white
| and colored. for our municipal offices
let us forever after hold our peace,
Yours respectfully,
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02
Public Feeling in Palatka.
Editor PALATKA NEWS:

Editor PALATKA NEWS:
Not being able conscientiously to up
hold the Republican ticket, 1 had hoped
the citizens at the convention last even
ing would have put up as the choice of
that convention, ticket which all good,
law-abiding citizens could sustain, but in
your report of the proceedings, 1 find
that in the vote for Mayor, one ballot was
cast out because the name of its candi-
dates was misspelt; this gave the election
to his opponent. Yet 1 have been told
by several parties to-day that on at least
twenty ballots the name of the candidate
declared elected was misspelt, and all of
them counted in. If this is true, was it II
fair election, and are citizens who can
not vote for the Republican nominee. ex-
pected to vote for one so chosen? Not
being present at Thursday nights ballot
ing, ask for light.
Palatka, April 1, 1887.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02
BlOxham and Drew.

The Monticello Constitution says:
1T is suggested that most of the veno-
nous attacks upon Ex-Governor Biloxi
ham are prompted by Ex-Governor Geo.
+. Drew, who is a bitter personal enemy
OF the first named gentleman"
This is unjust to Governor Drew, I'M
lees our contemporary has knowledge
entirely hidden from us. That Drew is
Bloxham's enemy goes without say
ing; the feeling is of long standing and
has never been hid under a bushel
But there has been no '.venomous at
tack" on Bloxham. unless one from the
Tampa Journal can be SO characterized,
and even then the grounds of the opin-
ions expressed and the proofs Of th9IDsi-
tions taken were openly given Such war
fars - this cannot be called''venomOus.'
and y In mo- sense clandestine. II these
are not fsir weapons, what shall we say
Of the anonymous defamation and ire
spansih2e insinuations which have been
hsaped On Perryl And If Drew is re-
spCnsible for the charges Of the Tampa
Journal, shan not Bloxham be brought
70 task for the false charges made
BY the Tmes- Union, which have
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02
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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02
LEGAL
Notice or Incorporation.

rINHE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY GIVE No
j TfCE. in pursuance of the statutes of the
State of Florida. in such case made and pro-
vided Of the formation of a corporation un.
der the provisions of Chapter 1885,. Laws OF
Florida, To construct, maintain and operate a
railrsad. commencing at the city of Palat ka
in the county OF Putnam State of Florida
running i'm a westerly or northwesteriy dlrcc-
ton through the counties of Putnam. Clay
AlachuIa. Lafayette. Taylor, Jefferson, Leon
and Gads.ien, with branches into the countie,
Of bradford. Sawanee, Columbia. Madison
Levy and Wakula; said company to la known
the Palarka and Northwestern Railway
Company
III. l. HART, Palatka-
X. y. MURRAY, Chicago.
j. q. NERTkEES. Palatka.
w j. WEBB. Palatka-
=. j. kENNERLY, Palatka-
SUMNER G. CHANDLER. Palat ka
WILLIAM j. VINEGAR. Palat ka
= L. HAMMOND, Palafka-
MARCUS LOEB, Palafkx.
II. q. PAYNE Palafka-
EDWARD LEWIS, Tallahassee.
PALATkA- March IL. l,e.. mh3S-3m
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02
Editor of the PALATKA NEWS:

Editor of the PALl,rKA NEWS:
As colored citizens, we do most earn
estly protest against the actions of the
citizens convention in totally ignoring
our race in the selection of municipal
candidates. Those of us who attended
the meeting We're anxious To have the
very best kind of a ticket nominated;
and knowing that we possess material fit
to fill any office in the municipality, feel
very much aggrieved at the result, es-
pecially as the voting Republican tax
payers and property holders are so nearly
equal that our interest for good govern
ment is identical with that of our white
fellow citizens. and we were also told
by those who we thought were the
leading spirits of that convention that
we would he recognized as we have
a right to be, but the result is, not a col
ored candidate ON the citizens ticket.
The citizens convention now must as
sumo the responsibility for the success
or defeat of the ticket they have put Ire
fore the citizens, white and colored.
MANY CoLoRED CITIZENS AND TAX PAY.
ERS.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02
Common Sense.
Christian Advocate.

A very sad case is reported of a young
lady who tripped and fell while engaged
in dance. and sustained an injury
which eliminated i'm paralysis. This
does not offer a subject for moralizing;
for the right or wrong of things is not la
be determined by accidents. An intel
ligent Christian lady fell while visiting a
sick neighbor. and was disabled for
months. Ministers Of the gospel have
been attacked by fatal hemorrhages
while preaching the Word i'm the pulpit.
The time has passed when any good inn
preston can be made by conclusions that
do not rest upon truth.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02

The colored people are making great
progress Notwithstanding tine cry of the
ultra-Republican papers of this country
To the contrary. Statistics show that
there are 1900 colored teachers in the
United States: ,OOO,O 900 pupils i'm male
and female high schools and 5000
600 worshippers in the churches.
Colored people pay taxes ON $50. OO0. 900
worth of property The Southern
Leader, colored- says that the elevation
of the race depends ON self-government
and not on dependence to- any Political
party.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02
An lnOuiry.

New York Times
Ii will be a great blow To John Sher-
man and not pleasant news to Mr.. Blaine
to learn that a committee Of the Legisla-
ture of Connecticut having a Repub-
ican majority has reported favorably a
resolution that goes to the heart of the
only remaining professed principle of
the Republican platform that has any
vitality in it, This resolution declares
that the Federal taxes on imported hum
Der. coal, iron, wood, salt, and copper
ore are an injury to the interests Of Con-
necticut
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02

The above communications are given
simply As induces tn the present state of
popular feeling in this city. The contest
for our municipal government has been
taken from the high grounds on which
it was placed by the publication of the
Gay Platform" and we have now only
a scramble for office, waged ON personal
or partisan grounds. We have no reason
to discuss the grievances of which these
parties complain the management of
primaries in the city has long been so
tricky that they possess little interest
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02


The sexton of Greenlawn Cemetery.
at indianapolis, which, from being once
the favorite burial ground of the rich
and aristocratic, has become only the
resting place of the poor and friendless.
has made "A discovery which is exciting
much curiosity. In examining the
old caskets in the cemetery vault he
found one containing the body OF a
woman, which was of extraordinary
weight. and a close examination revealed
that her remains had become petrified.
The casket bears the name of Mary Ann
Mills. aged p years at the time of her
death, which occurred i'm 1876. She was
a French woman. and is remembered by
those who knew her AS "A lady of uncom-
mon beauty. Her features are all well
preserved The color of her face is of a
much lighter brown than that of the
Egyptian mummies exhibited in this
country. Her eyes, half open. are 81
we'll preserved "a to show the original
color-blue-and the eyebrows are as
natural az i'm life. She had black hair
which was not very long at her death. Ii
has grown down to her waist and par
TALLY hidden her forehead.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02


A line of steamers is to be established
between Jacksonville and Jamaica,
touching at st. Augustine. Abel II.
Haig, of London, and j. III. Haig. ma
rine architect, of Stockholm, Sweden,
are preparing plans for the first steamer,
which il to be built of the best iron, to
be $40 feet over all, with accommoda-
tions for 100 cabin passengers and 40
second-class passengers. The projectors
are anxious to organize a joint
stock company To build Ameri-
can hotels on the island, and
it il said the people of Port Antonio, ia
maica, will take fifty per cent. of
the stock of such hotel company. If
the steamers are built to run to Jackson
vile, they might be induced to run to
Palatka. While one great use would be
to carry Northern passengers to Jamaica.
the projectors might be made to see the
advantage of having the line start from
the head of deep water navigation ON the
st. Johns. 1t is something worth trying
for, at least. Palatka needs to enjoy her
facilities for oceanic communication with
other lands
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02

Chicago Socialists have resumed the
business of threatening the bullet and
halter. 1t was talk of this sort that led
to the massacre of May 4, last year.
When their seven brethren are hanged,
next Nav. this sort of talk will disappear.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02
Ocala's Improvement bonds have a

Ocaia's Improvement bonds have all
been taken. The Council will spend
about 81 900 at once on streets and for
the drainage of the entire city. The re-
mainder of the money will be used for a
market house. Bids have been opened
for 100, 900 tons of rock for the streets.
Property owners will be compelled to
lay sidewalks in front of their premises.
These are all marks of a growing city
where property is continually becoming
more valuable, whether for sale, for
rental, or for the enjoyment of the
owner. Every time Florida city takes
q step forward. property in Palatka be-
comes intrinsically of less value until
the city itself moves forward in the same
pace. We have gas, will soon have an
abundant supply of water; sewerage is a
thing Of the immediate future. Let US
have good streets, a public market-house
and good public school-house.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02
BANKERS.

Accounts nr tanks, Bankers ana Corpor-
atoms solicited.
Our faciIIth for COLLECTIONS are excel
lent and we re- discount for Banks when bai-
n noes warrant IL.
Boston is "A Reserve City. tn3 balances with
US from Banks mot located in other Reserve
Cities count reserve.
We draw our own Exchange or London and
the Continent. and " abe Cable transfers and
place money by telegraph throughout the
United States and Canada
Government Bonds bought and sold, anf
Exchanges in Washington made for banks
without extra charge.
We have IA market TOR prime nrst-class In
vestment Securities. and invite pros osals
from States, Counties and Cities when issuing
bonds.
We do gene raj Banking business and in
wife correspondence.
ASA r. POTTER. President.
JOS. w. WORK. Cashier.
ocSi- WxSa6m
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02
Trepassing on State Territory.
RD~fop Herald

A portion of the press is disposed to
speak fiippantly of the difficulty between
the States of South Carolina and Georgia
over the arrest in the former State by
Georgia officers of an offender against
the laws of Georgia The case is as
clearly one of infringement of state priv
ileges as it is possible to conceive, and
there is really no room for controversy
with regard to il. The officers were be
yond State jurisdiction. and their ac-
ton is not tn be made light of any more
than it is to be justified. IL Massachu-
setts found New Hampshire or Rhode
sland officers conveying one of her citi-
zens or sojourners over the line. there
would be trouble very quickly. we opine
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02

Working on De Lesseps' Panama
canal cannot be cheerful employment.
A visitor says that few of the laborers
live i'm that climate longer than six weeks
after they arrive. and that in the rainy
season ten funeral trains are run each
day from the canal to the funeral ground.
notwithstanding this drawback the
company obtain all the men they want.
If that canal is ever completed. more I'M
man lives will have been sacrificed than
in a first-class war.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02
His Birthday Party.
Life.

Boy-Ain't il time to- eat the good
things:
Misunderstanding not. You must
wait until your friends come.
Boy guess they won't come cause
L didn't invite them. l thought I'll
rather have. il entirely exclusive.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02

The Savannah Nescs has given THE Pa
LArKA NEWS credit for an item. The
most leathery consciences have occa-
sional soft spots.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02

It was still showing, yesterday, in Viz
ginia, and even North Carolina had
quite q snow Storm 1t was "a remarka-
BILE First Of April.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02
PALATKA. FLA. APRIL 2. 1887.

and . ship of battle were opened at the
Navy Department yesterday.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02

The vote ON 1.-THE cloture" in the House
Of Commons, last night, shows the Tory
and Unionist strength to be great enough
to carry the Coercion Bill through.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02
Air-Thin Air.
Rural Free Press.

Only week more and the Legisla-
ture will be in session. Yet we are not
hearing much about that hurrah
promised Governor BloXham by the
Jacksonville. Herald
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02
Notice.

THE UNDERSIGNED HtNING BEkN
j duly appointed and gus lined - TIE ~
ecutor OF the estate Of John 10. tsiDH, iait
Of Putnam county. des esscd. all persons bay-
ing claims AGAINST the said estate are required
time pre.crftre$ bylaw. \. UsINA.
February u, 1877, lfeI5-ffl Executor
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02
uotjce.

MO ONE HAS ANY AUTHORITY To
~ contract any debts against the Steamer
q EORGEA except X. J. de ms. Agent
BEACH MILLER,
PaIatka. Fls.. Nov. s. 1885, owners
n0v6- &t6kWffS,
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02
MISCELLANEOUS.
WORKING CLASSES; pr, :::

s ssssss .: ~ :: s'' ss:.. T sse 1JEI0N
whole OF the time. or for their spare moOentA-
Busine0 new. light and roAtaDle. Personso
either scx easily earn fro0 80 cents 20 96-0
per evening. and . proportional sum by de-
voting all their time TO the business. Boys and
gfria earn nearly - much - men, That all
Who Sc thiD ny oenA she1r sd6reas. and test
The bussnGsR. se 0oke tAh 09es. To such -
are NOT vel ssfAs0ed Ue VII send one dollar
ticsslSxD anA Oufnt frea, A11Tuo GDO1DB
sFIuuuDU . Co. PuRtland. Naine- des-0~
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02

The boxes Of oranges sent from Flor
ida to Northern friends keep the expre-.
men occupied.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02
Notice.

THE UNDERSIGNED HAVING BEEN
i duly appointed snd qualified ss the Ad-
ministrrfIiE of the estate of Peter Nunfnr
late of Putnsm county. dseeaseo-al crroIfs
having ella inns agAin~t the said estate ale ~
quircd To pvs semi the srDe far payment v thin
the time prescribed by Law.
SUSAN v. MUkHGE,
AdmIni.trafriy
DeceRber 18th. lss6. dsD-u
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-02
Welaka and the Fruitland
Peninsula Booming.

RAND OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED TO
~ Capitalists Settlers and Busine=s Men, by
the advent of the new Raiiroad through the
Town. Most promising location ON the st.
Johna. Comfortable and picturesque baard-
Return boefs daily splendid Groves and
Land for sale. by the
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A Cave In on the n1lssissippi.

LAKE PROVIDENCE, La, March l5.-At
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Palestine Notes
Special to the Gazette.

Special 70 the Gazette.
PALESTINE, TEX, March 15.-United
States Marshal Dick Reagan with his
bride, whom he married at Tyler last
night, visited relatives in the city to-day
and LETT for Galveston to be II attendance
op the Federal court.
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